Flu pandemic: The host or the hosting land?

Future Virology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 197-201

  Ikuta, Kazuyoshi ^a   Ibrahim, Madiha S ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

AFRICA; ASIA; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIRD; DUCK; EDITORIAL; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; EUROPE; HOST; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; INFLUENZA VIRUS C; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORTALITY; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS; PANDEMIC; PIGEON; POULTRY FARMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

EID: 44149111868     PISSN: 17460794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17460794.3.3.197     Document Type: Editorial

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